ple workshop

The first get together of the new user-owned technology demonstrator projects took place yesterday in the delightful Lakeside Centre in Birmingham (albeit a little damp and rainy) in the form of the PLE Workshop. The afternoon began with an introduction and icebreaker session from me where the projects were asked to write a futuristic leader for a press article imagining they were in 2009 and at the end of their projects - this proved to be a challenging and lively task - but hopefully they all enjoyed it (in the end). However, the main event of the afternoon was a presentation from Oleg Liber* from CETIS. Oleg gave an excellent overview of PLE principles and began (though ran out of time to finish) a very interactive session with the projects on where they saw themselves contributing to (or not) the wider PLE domain. I'm going to pursue the possibility of Oleg turning this part of the presentation into a wiki so that the projects can continue to add to this - and especially the slides we did not get to cover. The presentations and agenda for the day will shortly be posted on to the JISC user-owned technology demonstrator page - links to follow soon. Now available - click here.

* I'd like to be able to link to Oleg's profile on the new CETIS site, but I don't seem to be able to find any detailed information about staff on there, which is a shame.